Comments on: How Minecraft Ruined World of Warcraft

By: Reece N

Reece N — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:59:54 +0000

Lego would be kicking themselves when seen Minecraft, lol!

By: Narrative and The End « Tish Tosh Tesh

Narrative and The End « Tish Tosh Tesh — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:06:32 +0000

[...] movies. There’s a place for story in MMOs. I just think that MMOs work best with greater freedom and a more malleable world, largely because it’s those crazy moments out in the game’s world that really make them [...]

By: Lint Collecting « Tish Tosh Tesh

Lint Collecting « Tish Tosh Tesh — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:32:31 +0000

[...] How Minecraft Ruined World of Warcraft [...]

By: Long Arm of the Law « Tish Tosh Tesh

Long Arm of the Law « Tish Tosh Tesh — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:10:38 +0000

[...] alliteration is a bit of a stretch.) We build the systems that make a game function. If players want to pick up an apple in Stormwind, they have to have a shopping list for permission. Otherwise, there is an absolute, unbreakable [...]

By: I Can Fly « Tish Tosh Tesh

I Can Fly « Tish Tosh Tesh — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:20:05 +0000

[...] like these make me happy. (And yes, if I could fly in Minecraft, you can bet your favorite great aunt that I’d spend a lot of time doing so. It’s not [...]

By: Isey

Isey — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 03:40:11 +0000

It’s my 5 yr olds favorite game as well. It’s fun having him direct the experience. He’s starting to get better at te controls too (but he still prefers I use the keys, he uses the mouse.)

He’s a builder more than an explorer is there a KEAS test for kids? (please dont be K.. please please please

He does like ‘harvesting’ the animals, and ridding the night of the bad guys though .

By: Blue Kae

Blue Kae — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:43:36 +0000

Awesome story, Tesh. I’m looking forward to my son getting just a bit older so I can start sharing some of these experiences with him as well.

By: Klepsacovic

Klepsacovic — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:57:57 +0000

Sandboxes are lame, which I know because my neighbor had one and he was lame. Much better is a part of the yard where they can play in the dirt. My family’s was in an area next to our back porch where I think they used to deliver coal or dump ashes. It probably gave us cancer and was possibly flammable if dried out, but that’s part of the fun of childhood.

Other good toys are random scraps of wood, with or without rusty nails, and rocks.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:48:36 +0000

“give your child a real sandbox”

We have one of those, and we’re planning on building a “fort” that they can tinker with this summer. As much fun as Minecraft is, they still do prefer playing outside. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

By: Capn John

Capn John — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:43:37 +0000

Many years ago a childhood friend and I made a hideout in a “cave” carved into the sandstone embankment running alongside the train tracks outside of town (we lived in a small country town in rural Victoria), while in the back paddocks of a farm we found an “island” where the river doubled back on itself. These two places featured prominently in many of our childhood adventures, such that as a young man in my 20s (still many years ago now I would occasionally return to them, and each time never fail to be astonished at the simplicity of what I found.

The “cave” was really nothing more than a very narrow crack in the sandstone, narrow enough that it could still support the sandstone roof. Although when I returned it had widened over the years and the roof had fallen in. The island had not changed much, but I had, and it no longer held the magic for me that it had for my younger self. The memories were still there but nothing more.

WoW is a visually splendid game but greatly limits how the user can interact with the world. Minecraft is an ugly game, by contrast, but it allows for far greater exploration and manipulation. But in the end, neither game can hold a candle to a child’s imagination.

Forget sandbox games, give your child a real sandbox and watch their eyes light up…at least until they get sand in them.